Friday 24 October 2014 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. An aspect camera dark current calibration was performed from the on-board loads on Oct 16. An assessment of the data indicates nominal aspect camera performance and that the number of CCD warm pixels is increasing at the expected rate. A Chandra image release was issued on Oct 21 containing six new images from Chandra's vast archive. Each of the images combines X-rays from Chandra with data from other telescopes. The images represent a tiny fraction of data that is now housed in Chandra's archive from over the mission's 15 years of operation. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2014/archives/ Of note this week was the Chandra User Committee meeting held at the CXC on Oct 23-24. The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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IGRJ17062-6143 ACIS-S/HETG Oct 27 30Doradus ACIS-I Oct 28 ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I Radiation Belts Oct 29 NGC1404tail ACIS-S Oct 30 3C237 ACIS-S Oct 31 ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I Radiation Belts Nov 1 30Doradus ACIS-I NGC1404 ACIS-S Nov 2 ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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